Word: thing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...introduction to journalism. Very often prospective newspaper men find it impossible to force their way into the profession because they have had no actual experience. The cruel world has no time to listen to their excuses and promises. Experience is what they demand, and experience is a hard thing to acquire without influence or authority. So apart from their pleasure, the CRIMSON competitions are of real value and give men an intimate idea of University life and activities as no other competitions are able to do. Tonight is the last call this year for future business, news, and editorial editors...
...noteworthy thing, as recorded in the press dispatches yesterday, that the interned German liners displayed American flags in commemoration of the birthday of Lincoln. It would be the depth of prejudice to hint that the display of those flags betokened anything but the sincere admiration of the commanders of the liners. Those men, alien and powerless in this country while a great war threatens the land of their birth, may have come in thirty months to feel some measure of regard for that great American who typifies the ideals and the democratic power of his people...
Even now, when this nation and Germany are in a position so unhappy and so perilous, the tribute of men of action to a man of action should not pass unmarked. We pride ourselves that we are a nation of sportsmen. It was the sportsmanlike thing that these commanders did America has no quarrel with amicable guests beneath the shelter of her flag...
Miss Frances Pritchard, of whom Boston bald-headers have grown very fond, is the one real celestial part of the paradise affair. She not only is young and lovely, but her dancing is of the best. "But why," wailed all connoisseurs of this sort of thing, "is she only allowed on the stage for so few precious minutes?" Admirable query! Mr. Teddy Webb becomes a fat German with success; Miss Cleo Mayfield has a well-practised, tough drawl, and Miss Vivienne Segal is nicely demure...
With such songs as "Auf Wiedersehn" and "To Paradise We'll Gaily Trip," "The Blue Paradise" ought to be a great hit. But it is not, simply because no finishing or smoothing or polishing has been done. Out with the tools, Mr. Producer, for if Broadway stamped this thing with approval, there must be some potential virtue in it, and Boston does like to agree with its Manhattan friend, even though it never does...